Only digitized ration cardholder to avail benefits: HP Govt

Shimla: The Director of Food, Civil Supplies, and Consumer Affairs Department, Himachal Pradesh, has urged the ration cardholders of the State to come forward for digitizing their ration cards.

The ration cardholders have been asked to contact Food and Civil Supplies department for the digitization of ration cards, through ration depots holders. Digitization forms are available at the ePDS Transparency Portal.

The Department has issued a toll-free number 1967 where the consumers can contact for any query about ration cards.

The old ration cards, which are still in vogue and the facilities being availed using them, are very susceptible to misuse. Keeping this matter in view, the POS machines have been installed in all fair price shops of the State and, in future, the consumers will get ration through digital ration cards, said the Department.

In order to mitigate the errors in the distribution of ration and also complying with the instructions of GoI, all the ration depots have been linked to Online Supply Chain Management, informed a spokesperson of the department said that

After the implementation of Online Supply Chain Management only those consumers will be able the get ration from POS machines who have digitized their ration cards, he said.

For now, the consumers, who have not digitized their ration cards, will continue to get ration from old ration cards.

Foundation Stone of HP Central University in Kangra laid, Will Be Ready in 3 Years, Says Govt

Kangra-The foundation stone of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh at Dehra in Kangra district was laid today by the Union Human Resource Minister Prakash Javadekar and Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur.

Prakash Javadekar said that the forest clearance for
construction of this University was also accorded when he was the Union Forest
and Environment Minister. The State Government deposited Rs 6 crore under CAMP
Act for forest clearance.

As per the official information released, the Central
University will have two campuses at two different locations. The first Campus
would be at Jadrangal near Dharamshala, which would be spread in an area of 750
hectares. The second campus would be
established at Dehra in an area of 287 hectares.

The Government said about Rs.1300 crore would be spent on construction of both these campuses and the same would be completed in the next three year, the government said. These campuses would be spread in an area of about 1000 hectare, making it one of the biggest University of the region.

The Government said that an amount of Rs.7044 crore was being spent on the education sector during the current financial year and a provision of Rs.7600 crore had been made for the next financial year.

Kinnaur- An avalanche along the India-China border in Namgya region of Kinnaur district on Wednesday killed one soldier of Jammu and Kashmir Rifles while five others were buried and still missing. The body of one soldier, who was identified as Rakesh Kumar (41) of Ghumarpur village, Shahtalai, Bilaspur district, has been recovered. The rescue operation was underway at the time of writing.

The district administration and Superintendent of Police, Kinnaur, confirmed the news.

Jawans of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and district police are carrying out an extensive search and rescue operation.

As per initial reports, which are not clear, about 10 jawans
of ITBP were hit by a massive avalanche at about 11 AM on Wednesday while they
were moving from one post to another. Five to six jawans were buried. Remaining
jawans rescued one of them who later died on the way to the hospital in Pooh.

Verification of more details is still awaited.

Himachal Pradesh: Operation underway to rescue 5 jawans trapped in snow after an avalanche hit them in Namgya region of Kinnaur district. pic.twitter.com/zqMslXBBgE